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Conference oass::babynames

Title:	A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
Notice:	BABYNAMES is now on-line and writable! Enjoy...
Moderator:	OASS::BURDEN_D

Created:	Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:	Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	996
Total number of notes:	7139

352.0. "Overused Names -- Boys" by KUDZU::ANDERSON (Give me a U, give me a T...) Thu Feb 23 1989 19:40

	The following list is from Dunkling and Gosling, The New
	American Dictionary of First Names, Signet, NY, 1985.  The
	list is from 1983 -- if anybody has a newer one, please enter
	it.  That way we can get the Dustin's and Tyler's too.


			Most Popular Names -- 1983

	1.  Michael
	2.  Matthew
	3.  Christopher
	4.  Brian
	5.  David
	6.  Adam *
	7.  Andrew
	8.  Daniel
	9.  Jason *
	10. Joshua *
	11. Ryan *
	12. Nicholas
	13. Jeffrey
	14. Eric
	15. Justin *
	16. Joseph
	17. John
	18. Robert
	19. Steven
	20. James
	21. Jonathan *
	22. Brandon *
	23. Aaron *
	24. Anthony
	25. Timothy

	I marked the ones that I think are, not only too popular, but
	trendy as well -- and which I think are musts to avoid.

		-- Cliff (I'm probably no. 372)

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
352.1	1987	SHALOT::ANDERSON	Give me a U, give me a T...	`Thu May 11 1989 16:54`	31
	The following list is from Bruce Lansky, The Best Baby Name Book. Thanks to Lori Hagen. Most Popular Names -- 1987 1. Christopher 2. Michael 3. Matthew 4. Ryan 5. Andrew 6. Joshua 7. Nicholas 8. Brandon 9. Robert 10. Daniel 11. Joseph 12. David 13. Eric, Erik 14. John 15. Adam 16. Jonathan 17. Jason 18. Aaron 19. James 20. Brian, Bryan 21. Benjamin 22. Stephen, Steven 23. Anthony 24. Justin 25. William
352.2	Trends	SHALOT::ANDERSON	Give me a U, give me a T...	`Thu May 11 1989 17:19`	21
	Just for fun, I analyzed these lists to see what's on the way in, what's on the way out. Here's what I came up with: o The big gainers were: Brandon (14), Robert (9), Ryan (7) ... looks like "r" is an up and coming consonant o The big losers were: Brian (16), Justin (9), Adam (9), Jason (8), David (7), Jeffrey (off the charts) ... looks like the J's took it pretty hard o The top 3 names barely changed o Polysyllabic names were popular -- all names with 3 syl- lables or more gained ... is our culture moving toward more formality? -- this is borne out by: o Traditional names -- people are still naming their kids John, James, William, Robert, etc. ... in fact, all of these were gainers -- Cliff